Safety-depository for milk-bottles.



M. CAIBGIANO.

SAFETY DEPOSITORY FOR MILK BOTTLES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.28,I9I1.

Patented Sept. 18, 1917.

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SAFETY-DEPOSITOBY FOR MILK-BOTTLES.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 18, 1917.

Application filed February 28, 1917. Serial No. 151,401.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL CAGGIANO, a citizen of the Kingdom of Italy,and a resident of New York, county of New York, and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Depositoriesfor Milk-Bottles, of Which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in safety depositories formilk bottles which are adapted to hold the same safely after having beendeposited therein by the distributing milk man.

The purpose of the present invention is to prevent the loss of milk bytheft. For this purpose the novel safety depository is so constructed asto be applied to or hung on the top rail or the top of the lock stile ofthe door frame. If the door is closed the depository can not be removednor a milk bottle therein because the depository is held tight betweenthe top of the door and the adjoining wood-work or part of the wall,andgthe cover of the device can not be lifted untilthe door is openedand the device re portion of the depository allowing a milk ottle topass when shifted in and supporting it until removed from the top.Another feature of the invention is that one milk 7 gi'b'ottle may bedeposited within the device and one safely suspended in the means forits holding it just mentioned. The depository being hung on the doorrenders it unnecessary to out, drill or otherwise injure and disfigurethe door for the purpose of applying thereto a milk de ository. Theseand other features will be Fully described hereinafter with reference tothe accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 represents in central longitudinal section a safety depositoryas applied to a door with one milk bottle therein and a second one heldand suspended thereby.

Fig. 2 is a detail view in central section of the top portion of thedepository with the cover or lid partly opened.

Fig. 3 is a cross section on line 33 of Fig. 1 without any bottle in thedepository.

Similar characters of reference denote like parts in all the figures.

In the drawing, a represents a tubular receptacle of such diameter as toconveniently hold a full sized milk bottle. In the bottom portion of thetube a there is permanently secured a circular strip of metal 6preferably by small rivets 0. As shown in Figs. 1 and 3 this circularstrip of metal is located on the inside of the bottom portion of thetube a and has formed thereon a plurality of leaf springs d integraltherewith and curved upwardly and inwardly as shown in Fig. 1. Thissystem of leaf springs thus is radially arranged with the narrowestportion near the center where it leaves an opening 6, as best shown inFig. 3.

The top of the tube a is provided with a cover or lid 7 secured theretoby a hinge g, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, one hinge leaf being secured tothe inner top surface of the tube a and the other to the bottom surfaceof the cover 7. At either side of the hinge and secured to the bottomsurface of the cover there are two metal strips of which one 72 is shownin the drawing. Those metal strips rise upwardly beyond the tube nearthe hinge 9 where the tube is somewhat out to allow of the passage'ofthe metal strips h and of the convenient location of the hinge. Theupwardly rising portion k of the metal strip h is again bent at a rightangle and forms a horizontal portion h Each portion k again is bent at aright angle downwardly formingva curved section it, as indicated at h.The described device forms a combined hinged cover and hook to suspendit on the top rail or look stile of the door frame 2'. As shown in Fig.1 it is impossible to remove the safety depository when the door isclosed as during the night. When the milk man comes in the morning hepushes one bottle of milk 7' from below through the leaf spring deviceinto the tubular receptacle a and a second bottle is suiiiciently tobring the rim of the bottle beyond the leaf spring device which thenengages the neck of the bottle and holds it in a suspended condition. Inthe morning when the door is opened the depositor may be removed. Thecover now is lifted and the bottle 7' taken out whereupon the bottle kis shifted'into the receptacle and taken out from the top.

In the described manner one milk bottle may be placed in the depositoryby the distributing milk man. However a family dosiring two bottles or abottle of milk and a bottle of cream may have placed one bottle into thedepository and the other safely suspended therefrom as described.

It is impossible to remove the depository or a milk bottle therefrom aslong as it is hung on the door and the door closed. The tangularsections adapted to fit the top of a cover or lid of the receptacle cannot be door, and means in the bottom portion of opened for the removalof the milk bottle the receptacle allowing of the insertion and untilthe depository has been removed from support of a milk bottle' and ofsecurely the door. A single milk bottle is supported suspending a secondone therefrom. within the receptacle by the leaf spring de- 3. In asafety depository for milk bottles vice. If two bottles are depositedthen one a leaf spring device in the bottom portion of bottle issuspended from the leaf spring dethe depository composed of a bottomring vice which enga es the bottle neck below its with radial leafsprings formed integrally rim and the to ottle rests upon the top oftherewith extending inwardly and leaving the suspended bottle. Thus theleaf spring a central opening, the said leaf springs device performs twofunctions by virtue of yielding when the bottle is inserted and reitsrising curved leaf springs leaving a centurning into the normal positionto suptral opening of proper size to allow of the ort the bottle andpermit of suspending a suspension of a second bottle. second bottle byengaging with their inner I claim as my invention: ends the neck ofthe'bottle below the rim. 1. A safety depository for milk bottles 4:. Ina safety depository for milk bottles comprising a tubular receptacle, aleaf a combined hinge cover and hook device spring device in its bottomportion having composed of the hinged cover with two bars upwardlycurved, radial leaf springs exrigidly secured on its under surface, thetending inwardly and leaving a central said bars forming a rectangularhook beopening, and a hinged cover at the top with yond the hinge of thecover adapted to be a hook device rigidly secured thereto comhung on adoor.

posed essentially of rectangular sections Signedat New York, N. Y., this14th adapted to fit the top of a door. day of February, 1917 2. A safetydepository for milk bottles MICHAEL CAGGIANO. comprising a tubularreceptacle, a hinged Witnesses: cover at the top with a hook devicerigidly LOUIS DE JULIO, secured thereto composed essentially of rec-PASQUALE CARUSO.

